Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: >> ... I do not particularly see this change (there may be similar >> ones) desirable. I'd find it it be much more natural to sort >> "commit-anything" after "commit", and that is true with or without >> the common extension ".o" added to these entries. >> >> In short, flipping these entries because '.' sorts later than '-' is >> making the result look "less sorted", at least to me. > > The problem with this argument is that it disagrees with ASCII, as `-` > has code 0x2d while `.` has code 0x2e, i.e. it is lexicographically > _larger_. I am saying that sorting these in ASCII order did not produce result that is easy to the eyes. You are saying that Denton's patch sorted these lines in ASCII order. I agree with you that it did correctly sort them in ASCII order. That does not make the patch right ;-)
